Twitter owes much of its popularity to the ecosystem of third-party apps and services that has sprung up around it. In fact, a big chunk of Twitter’s userbase doesn’t visit the site itself, but connects to the service via third-party desktop or mobile clients. On the desktop front, two players are battling it out for the title and, interestingly, both clients are built on top of the Adobe AIR platform. Now, though, Seesmic wants to get ahead by launching a dedicated Windows client, which offers several advantages over the AIR version like drag and drop and the possibility for a plug-in platform.
“[W]e are extremely proud to announce that our most popular twitter client is now available as a feature-rich native application for Windows,” Seesmic announced on its blog. “Partnered with Microsoft, engineered for Windows and optimized for Windows 7, this preview version of Seesmic for Windows combines the best features from of our ever-popular social application and provides it to you in a native Windows environment.”
Seesmic already builds a very popular client and the fact that it used AIR to do it didn’t seem to hinder its growth so far. Add to this the fact that the app works on Windows, Mac and Linux without having to write separate code for each platform and there doesn’t … (read more)